täk-

See also: tak, Tak, Täk, -tak, -ták, and TAK

Tocharian B

Etymology

From Proto-Tocharian *tēke, probably (though with some phonetic problems) from Proto-Indo-European *té-th₂g-eti, reduplicated present from the root *teh₂g- (“to touch, grasp, take”), whence also Gothic 𐍄𐌴𐌺𐌰𐌽 (tēkan), Old Norse taka (“to touch; to grasp, take”), Latin tetigī (“have touched”, act.perf. of tangō) and Ancient Greek τεταγών (tetagṓn, “having seized”, participle).^[1][2][3] Alternatively from a separate root *deh₁g- shared only with Germanic, or from the distinct root *tek- (“to take, obtain, receive”) (or contaminated therewith).

Verb

täk- (full grade: cek-)

1. to touch, feel with the hand
2. to fetch, procure

Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Third-person singular present: ceśäṃ

Derived terms

• ceśalle (“touching, feeling”)
• takälñe (“touch”)
• teki (“illness, disease”)
• tetekor (“touch”)

Related terms

• (perhaps) tāś (“commander”)

References

1. Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) “täk-”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, pages 305–306
2. Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), “*teh₂⁽ǵ⁾- ‘berühren, fassen’”, in Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, pages 616–617
3. Guus Kroonen (2013) “*takan- ~ *tēkan-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 507